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Democracy And
Socialism

Democracy means the rule of the people.
Hence the rule of the people is not established until they get equal
political, social and economic rights.

In the west, what is publicized as democracy
is not more than a limited social and political democracy with different
phases from country to country. In these countries more money
can buy more “democracy”.

Anyone who can pay for the expensive election’s
propaganda costs, can candidate herself or himself for different
levels of the governing bodies. Once they have succeeded,
they will enjoy the benefits of these “democracies”.

The same conditions are true for the pro-capital
parties and organizations. Those which receive more money
from corporations and rich people, are able to advertise vastly,
play tricks and become victorious. It is obvious that
these organizations have to serve for the benefits of those companies
and not the people.

In another example, those who can afford to spend
more money, can hire better lawyers, bring justice to their side
and enjoy the social aspects of these “democracies”.

Better services of healthcare, education, and
housing … are available only with more money. These differences
which are rapidly and constantly widening during imperialism’s era
are more apparent in the United States of America, the paradise
of capitalists.

The pride of these “democracies” is the right
to vote, which not only is continuously rigged, but due to the increasing
indifference of people and the inaccessibility to many of them,
does not reflect the will of the majority.

In other hand, what was in place in the ex-Socialist
camp represented a relatively established social and economic democracy.
It is now evident that in the absence of political democracy in
those countries – whatever was the cause – opportunism and corruption
flourished and eventually led to the dismantlement of those systems.

The lessons we learned from those experiences
are that: socialism is not achievable anywhere in the absence of
political democracy. And democracy is not established without
implementation of full political, social and economic democracies.